Individual nursing homes were assigned analgesic use or placebo. Patients were given acetaminophen (68 percent), buprenorphine via transdermal patch (23 percent), pregabalin (7 percent) and morphine (2 percent). Researchers found agitation was reduced on average by 17 percent.
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